If somebody is fearless you can not call him brave. You can not call a machine brave, it is fearless. Bravery exists only in the ocean of fear, bravery is an island in the ocean of fear. Fear is there, but in spite of the fear one takes the risk- that is bravery. One trembles, one is afraid to go into the dark, and still one goes. In spite of oneself one goes, that is the meaning of being brave. It does not mean fearless. It means full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
The greatest question arises when you move into Love. Then fear grips your soul, because to love means to die, to die into the other. It is death, and a far deeper death than ordinary death. In the ordinary death only the body dies, in the death of love the ego dies. To Love needs great guts. It needs one to be capable of going into it in spite of all the fears that will clamor around one. The greatest the risk, the greater the possibility of growth - so nothing helps a man more in growth than love. It is only the fire of love that gives you ripeness.
Osho
page88 from the book "Courage - The Joy of living dangerously"
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